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Award recipient Christopher Gray poses on the red carpet for the Smithsonian Magazine's 2016 American Ingenuity Awards, honoring groundbreaking individuals in several categories, at the National Portrait Gallery on December 8, 2016 in Washington, DC.
Gray won for his creation of Scholly, an app and web platform that uses an algorithm to connect eligible students with pre-screened scholarships. / AFP PHOTO / MOLLY RILEYMOLLY RILEY/AFP/Getty Images